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Sarah Polley is starting to understand ;) • written by Kenneth Almost. It isn’t that we — the average Canadian citizen — are telling filmmakers who receive large donations from the government trough that we would rather they “leave the country” to make their movies (although I’m still bitter

The Canadian Culture Wars continue with the cancellation of the PromArt program, which provided travel funding to artists, performers and organizations to promote Canadian culture abroad. To justify their actions, a Foreign Affairs spokesperson cited the usual nonsense about "fiscal restraint", even

BREAKING NEWS: CONSERVATIVE CHRISTIAN FINDS BLASPHEMY ON THE INTERNET!A B.C. man has filed a human rights complaint alleging religious discrimination after a TV comedian flew a plane pulling a "Jesus sucks" banner over Toronto. Dean Skoreyko of the northern B.C. town of Coldstream filed the complaint against Kenneth Hotz and Showcase TV.

Maybe that's the question the media should start asking, now that the Senate has announced its' plan to trim the fundamentalist fat from Bill C-10 and deprive Mullah McVety of the opportunity to censor films he finds offensive.

Liberal senators proclaim they will amend the sections of Bill C-10 relating to federal tax credits for film and television, removing the power from the Heritage Minister to deny funding to productions she deems offensive.

Today, Chuck McVety's rotten and twisted censorship dreams were dashed upon the rocks of reason, sanity and freedom by two Liberal Senators: "Senators Francis Fox and Wilfred Moore today made public the amendments that Liberal Senators intend to introduce when the Standing Senate Committee on Banking,

Ottawa, ON – A majority (52%) of Canadians believe that it would be wrong for the government to screen the content of films and either approve or deny tax credits based on whether or not they deem it to be offensive or ‘contrary to public policy’, according to a new Ipsos Reid poll conducted for CanWest News Service and Global Television.

“I guess what we’re saying is ‘Don’t vote Conservative.’” That was just one of the many sentiments expressed by a panel of filmmakers and industry professionals after a Saturday evening screening of Young People Fucking (YPF) presented by the First Weekend Club at Scotiabank Theatre in Toronto.

“Why is MP refusing to talk about Bill C-10?” The Leader-Post (Regina) June 18, 2008 Who does Conservative MP Dave Batters work for? I was under the impression that it is supposed to be the constituents of Palliser, but from recent experience it is clear that is not the case.

From Art Threat: Opposition keeps growing to the Conservative government’s Bill C-10. The controversial bill would allow the Minister of Heritage to rescind tax-credits from television programs and films after production should they deem it ‘contrary to public policy.’ Today the mayors of